Generously supported by the Blue Moon Fund, QCC's Inaugural Urban Farm is located at Sixth St. and Monticello Avenue, in our Ridge Street target neighborhood. Designed to bring residents of CRHA's Sixth Street community together with those from Friendship Court and the larger C
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harlottesville community, plots totalling 1/3 acre have been planted and tended by Farmer Todd Niemeier with the help of over 100 volunteers! More than 40 low income families have improved their diets with veggies harvested in their own backyards, while learning about food security, nutrition and wellness, and how to be better environmental stewards. In

addition to our flagship Sixth Street and Monticello Ave Farm, we have also established a raised bed garden at
Barrett Early Learning Center on Ridge Street, a rural Three Sisters Garden at
Companion Farm, and are proud partners of
Ploughshare Community Farm, which donates its surplus produce for free distribution in our target neighborhoods.